Clothes-hook



' J. W. DREW.

Clothes-Hook.

Pa tented Feb. 3, 1880.

INVENTUR- WITNESSES- ".PEIERS, FHO O-LITHOQRAPHER, WASHXNGTDN. u 0- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES W. DREW, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,003, dated February 3, 1880. Application filed July 28, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMEs W. DREW, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Hooks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of a clotheshook embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan.

In hanging clothing, and especially coats, upon the clothes-hooks constructed in the ordinary manner, the hooks injure the clothes by producing a raised place in the garment where it presses down upon the sharp end of the supporting-hook. In order to prevent this injury to coats, coat-hangers are used, the objection to which is, however, that, as they spread from sleeve to sleeve, they occupy too" much space.

By means of my improvement a clotheshanger is produced which occupies no more room than that now in common. use, and completely obviates the difficulty above men tioned. I

In the drawings, arepresents the plate which is fastened to the wall, and b and c the upper and lower supporting-hooks, respectively.

Extending both ways from the outer end of the hook bis the cross-piece or supportingarm cl, drooping at its ends so as not to injure the shape of the garment hung therefrom.

Openings (1 maybe provided, if desired, so as to lighten the castin By this means a heavy coat maybe hung from the hook without sufferi u g any injury to its shape.

If desired, two hooks may be used to support a heavy overcoat, one near each sleeve or shoulder.

It is obvious that the cross-piece d may be applied to either or both the hooks b c.

In making my improved clothes-hook the plate a, hook I), and arm cl are usually cast in one piece, and the lower hook, c, in a separate piece and fitted into the plate a, as shown in Fig. 2.

The length and shape of the cross-piece d may be somewhat varied, if desired, although the illustration is thought to be about correct in its proportion.

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a clothes-hook consisting of the plate a, provided, as shown, with one orboth the arms I) 0, one or both of which having at their ends the spreading arm or cross-piece d, as and for the purpose herein set forth.

JAMES w. DREW.

Witnesses HENRY W. WILLIAMS, JOHN E. FRENNING. 

